for this morality to be called in question—and in any case the reverse of the testing, analyzing, doubting, and vivisecting of this very faith. Hear, for instance, with what innocence—almost worthy of honour—Schopenhauer represents his own task, and draw your conclusions concerning the scientificness of a “Science” whose latest master still talks in the strain of children and old wives: “The principle,” he says (page 136 of the Grundprobleme der Ethik 4 ), “the axiom about the purport of which all moralists are practically agreed: neminem laede, immo omnes quantum potes juva —is really the proposition which all moral teachers strive to establish, … the real
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